Speaker 1: Hi, Christie, they will. How are you really excited? I'm
Speaker 1: really excited about did you have a good New Year
Speaker 1: before we get into the amazing conversation we're about to have. Sure, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I did, I really did. I I had a chaotic holiday,
Speaker 1: just like everybody. I'm sure sure of course, But then
Speaker 1: I have kids, so it couldn't have been more chaotic.
Speaker 1: You had probably a pretty relaxed holiday in comparison. No,
Speaker 1: actually I did. I got to experience so my stepdaughter
Speaker 1: and her my son in law. I get to now
Speaker 1: say that officially. Um they I'm so grown up. They
Speaker 1: came and spent the holiday with us, and I experienced
Speaker 1: what it was like to have two children, kind of
Speaker 1: because they brought their puppy and we have our puppy.
Speaker 1: So the two of them bonded and became best friends,
Speaker 1: and it was just a restly, run around crazy Now.
Speaker 1: I don't know much about children, but I imagine it's
Speaker 1: kind of the same. You let him run around all day,
Speaker 1: you throw him a treat, and you throw them in
Speaker 1: a crate, so that it's just like kids, right him
Speaker 1: in what I know what you're saying, because during Thanksgiving
Speaker 1: my brother came and brought his puppy and his three sons,
Speaker 1: and then I had two daughters. But that was Thanksgiving
Speaker 1: chaos and that was next level. But did you cook? Uh?
Speaker 1: Not for Thanksgiving and also Christmas? So that's the right there.
Speaker 1: Don't do that. Just hosts and then figure out how
Speaker 1: to clean it all up. Okay, fair enough. Two dogs,
Speaker 1: I'm going to say equal one toddler, So imagine what
Speaker 1: you experienced times too. That's just I'm not even going
Speaker 1: to imagine that. I'm not even going to take the
Speaker 1: time to imagine that horrifying event. And I'm sure there's
Speaker 1: love and joy and imagine in it as well somewhere,
Speaker 1: but yeah, it's just not for everyone. You live and
Speaker 1: you learn will did you did you make it till
Speaker 1: midnight on New Year's I always like, well, it's my anniversary.
Speaker 1: So actually Christmas Eve is my oldest daughter's birthday. She
Speaker 1: turned six, um, and so you know, we had a
Speaker 1: little fun with that, but overall New Year's was the
Speaker 1: big night and we celebrated nine years, me and Brendan
Speaker 1: nine years. Congratulations. Crazy. It is crazy because Sue and
Speaker 1: I were just talking about that today because this year
Speaker 1: will be our seventh and we're yeah, if you can
Speaker 1: believe that? Wait? What Yeah, Sue and I this year
Speaker 1: will have been married seven years already, Like I knew you,
Speaker 1: we like reconnected with comic cons. How long have we
Speaker 1: been what? Yeah, so we've been She and I have
Speaker 1: been dating since what we still say we're dating um
Speaker 1: since Okay, so we've been together that long. But we've
Speaker 1: been married for seven years already. That's crazy so fast,
Speaker 1: that doesn't because I remember when we we we you
Speaker 1: and I like started touching basse and reconnecting because we
Speaker 1: started doing comic cons and it was really wonderful to
Speaker 1: see you and then you're like, oh, yeah, this is
Speaker 1: my fiance. We're about to get married in Connecticut, and
Speaker 1: we reconnected about living being from Connecticut, and so it's
Speaker 1: what we reconnected. Then it was next I got married
Speaker 1: in Son. If she was my fianci already, which by
Speaker 1: the way, is the proper and she if she was
Speaker 1: my fianchi by that point, then yeah, I want to
Speaker 1: be saying things wrong. No, you want to pronounce them correctly.
Speaker 1: Everyone knows that, Christie. Okay, So we've been now shooting
Speaker 1: it around and just talking fun, but really we're both
Speaker 1: bubbling under the surface here because we can finally explode.
Speaker 1: So for listeners out there, this is incredibly special for us.
Speaker 1: And when we became, you know, started a partner with
Speaker 1: I Heart, we went to them and said, look, we've
Speaker 1: had this dream kind of from the beginning where we
Speaker 1: want to make an interactive podcast. We're not only are
Speaker 1: we going to be interviewing these amazing people, but we
Speaker 1: want to bring on amateurs that are going to be
Speaker 1: able to have the opportunity to showcase their talent and
Speaker 1: to work with some of the best in the business.
Speaker 1: And our ultimate goal is to do a nationwide contest
Speaker 1: to find a legitimate voice over actor that is an
Speaker 1: amateur that hasn't had an opportunity yet give that person.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna use I'm gonna say it, Christie. You've been
Speaker 1: trying to get me to say it forever, but I'm
Speaker 1: gonna say, I'm gonna give that person their big break.
Speaker 1: You did win, and it's true because the more I'm
Speaker 1: thinking about it, I'm like, once again, don't argue with Christie.
Speaker 1: She knows what she's talking about. And I Heart to
Speaker 1: their amazing joy and credit thankfully went great idea. Let's
Speaker 1: do it and they've been working with us ever since
Speaker 1: um to American Idol, this thing to where we are
Speaker 1: going to blanket the country to find the next big
Speaker 1: voice over actor. And the reason that we have yet
Speaker 1: to say and hey, who's here with us today, Christie,
Speaker 1: who's here with us today Will is because we don't
Speaker 1: have anyone with us today. It is the two of
Speaker 1: us just talk in the contest because we finally can
Speaker 1: and we're gonna it's so much fun. We're gonna be
Speaker 1: able to tell everybody about what is going on, what
Speaker 1: we're planning, all the prizes, like I can't. I want
Speaker 1: to go like live and then like rightful, I want
Speaker 1: to like I just shout out on a rooftop. Well,
Speaker 1: we're gonna be able to do that because we're also
Speaker 1: gonna be doing a major press press push. Try to
Speaker 1: say that five times, fast press push, press, push, press push.
Speaker 1: That's pretty there, you go nice. Uh. So everyone's gonna
Speaker 1: gonna be able to to join us on this ride
Speaker 1: because we at the end of the day, I was
Speaker 1: and we'll get into where I said this because I'm
Speaker 1: allowed to finally say this, but I was I was
Speaker 1: somewhere big announcing this, which you couldn't come out for
Speaker 1: because again, you live in Texas and I live here. Um,
Speaker 1: but I was somewhere and what I said was, we're
Speaker 1: looking for a colleague. We are looking for somebody who
Speaker 1: can day one step into a booth and read promo copy,
Speaker 1: read animation copy, can be start their career. Uh. So
Speaker 1: this is and we can talk about it. Christie, I'm
Speaker 1: so exciting. This is crazy. Um uh wow, I'm almost speechless. Yeah.
Speaker 1: This isn't like charity. This is like, this is the
Speaker 1: real deal, big break, you know, like we're doing. So
Speaker 1: let's get into it now. We can finally announce, Christie,
Speaker 1: what's our contest called? Oh you did it again, didn't you?
Speaker 1: You just had to do it? Super awesome Contest to
Speaker 1: find the next Big Voice Actor. I was pretty close.
Speaker 1: I think I think that's close to Superstomme Contest to
Speaker 1: discover It to become the supersom to become the next
Speaker 1: big voice actor is going live. People. We are getting there.
Speaker 1: So let's just jump right into this. And I'd like
Speaker 1: to to start with talking about the contest a little
Speaker 1: bit and then we'll get into the prizes. Does that
Speaker 1: work work for you? Christie? Okay, let's do that. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So the contest is going to be multi tiered, as
Speaker 1: they would say, like an American Idol style contest, where
Speaker 1: we are going to start with sixteen lucky contestants and
Speaker 1: every week we are gonna weed it down and it
Speaker 1: is going to be two week until we get down
Speaker 1: to the final pisode. Do you mean a week? Will meaning?
Speaker 1: I mean we are going to have two contestants come
Speaker 1: on every week and we are going to play some
Speaker 1: voiceover games with a special guest every week. We are
Speaker 1: still going to be this is the joy as while
Speaker 1: we were still gonna be talking to some of the
Speaker 1: best voiceover actors, directors, producers, writers in the industry, and
Speaker 1: they are now going to help to judge. But also
Speaker 1: as we we get down to the nitty gritty and
Speaker 1: we get down to say the final four, everyone of
Speaker 1: the last contestants will get a mentor where they will
Speaker 1: have some kind of a zoom conference and they they're
Speaker 1: going to be able to be helped by some of
Speaker 1: the best actors directors in the industry. So I'm gonna
Speaker 1: be saying this and Christie is gonna be saying this
Speaker 1: over and over and over again, because this is going
Speaker 1: to be very important. You're gonna be uh, we're gonna
Speaker 1: be going live with submissions on the ninth of January,
Speaker 1: and starting on the ninth of January, you're gonna be
Speaker 1: entering at I Hear Voices at I Heart Radio dot com.
Speaker 1: Once again, I Hear Voices at I Heart Radio dot com.
Speaker 1: So we want to make sure that we get as
Speaker 1: many entries as we can. UM. You cannot have an
Speaker 1: agent coming in. You've got to be purely an amateur.
Speaker 1: It is u s. Residents over the age of eighteen
Speaker 1: will be sending a no more than two minute audio
Speaker 1: or video to us at I Hear Voices at I
Speaker 1: Heart Radio dot com. UM, which is very very cool.
Speaker 1: So we want to make sure we get as many
Speaker 1: submissions as we possibly can. And again that's a two
Speaker 1: minute audio or video that you're gonna send to I
Speaker 1: Hear Voices at I Heart Radio dot com. So, yes,
Speaker 1: January nine to February nine, it is live. I think
Speaker 1: we start talking about the prizes because the prizes are phenomenal. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm so excited. So the first one, uh, is you
Speaker 1: get flown to l A. You're gonna get flown to
Speaker 1: Los Angeles to have lunch with Christy and I, which
Speaker 1: I think is pretty cool. I don't know that's a
Speaker 1: good question. I say, know, it's fun. I think not
Speaker 1: only are you flown to l A, but I think
Speaker 1: it's left up to you to also make the reservations
Speaker 1: and pay. Over real, I think you'll pick the cuisine
Speaker 1: and then I'll pick the place. Okay, okay, that works.
Speaker 1: You're good at that. You're good at that stuff. So
Speaker 1: I'll be like, I really want to try like a
Speaker 1: fancy sushi spot. And then we'll be like, okay, we'll
Speaker 1: go to yeah, yeah, yeah, that's a good call. A Montana,
Speaker 1: which is like this old school Italian place in West Hollywood.
Speaker 1: Will go there. We will figure something out. But that's
Speaker 1: a great idea, you get. Yeah, you pick that, you
Speaker 1: pick the genre of food, and we will pick the place.
Speaker 1: That's a that's a good way to do it. Um.
Speaker 1: So yes, flown out to a lot that's that's number
Speaker 1: one on the hit parade. Flown out to Los Angeles
Speaker 1: to have a incredible lunch with both Christie and I
Speaker 1: where we are going to be gushing over the fact
Speaker 1: that you are going to be our colleague and our
Speaker 1: new winner. But it's not just going to be us
Speaker 1: at that lunch. And this is huge. This is where
Speaker 1: we talk big break stuff because the other person you're
Speaker 1: going to meet at your lunch is your new agent
Speaker 1: from C E. S D, which is my agency. So
Speaker 1: we were talking about putting yourselves on the line. I
Speaker 1: called my agency, which is arguably the biggest best voiceover
Speaker 1: agency in the industry, and I said, Christy and I
Speaker 1: are doing this contest and we want to, uh, will
Speaker 1: you sign the winner? And they said, oh, jeez, you
Speaker 1: know that we've got the best in the business here.
Speaker 1: I said, I know, but we're going to do this.
Speaker 1: They said, hey, will Christie, if you can go and
Speaker 1: find us the next big voice actor, we will sign them.
Speaker 1: Those are the first two prizes that we've talked about, Christie.
Speaker 1: But there's a third prize that we've also mentioned a
Speaker 1: couple of times that my heart is very generous about.
Speaker 1: So on your trip to Los Angeles, you're also getting
Speaker 1: a thousand dollars um, which is good because the lunch
Speaker 1: I'm gonna want you to buy for me is nine
Speaker 1: and dollar No, I'm kidding, the lunch is on us.
Speaker 1: So those are the count Those are the the the
Speaker 1: prizes we've been able to talk about, but now we
Speaker 1: can actually talk about the next cool thing. So I
Speaker 1: got in touch with my friends a critical role and
Speaker 1: my friends have their season two of the Legend of Oxmachina,
Speaker 1: which is premiering January. I'm very excited. It's already been
Speaker 1: announced so I can say that I'm also on the
Speaker 1: second season. I'm really excited about this. I learned how
Speaker 1: to play Dungeon Dragons with my friends over a critical role.
Speaker 1: Their show has exploded. It is a hundred percent fresh
Speaker 1: on on Rotten Tomatoes, the first season of Oxmachina. It
Speaker 1: is a worldwide phenomenon that they built my friends from
Speaker 1: the ground up by themselves playing D and D together.
Speaker 1: It is so inspiring every time I go there and
Speaker 1: I watch what they're doing. They are still such a family.
Speaker 1: They have built it together and it is incredible. So
Speaker 1: I went over to them and I said, Hey, I'm
Speaker 1: doing this contest. Christy and I are doing this together.
Speaker 1: I hear voices, is there anything you guys can do
Speaker 1: for us? And they said, oh man, we would love to. So,
Speaker 1: in addition to all the other prizes we've given you,
Speaker 1: Sam Regal, Emmy Award winning director Sam Regal and Mary McGlenn,
Speaker 1: who is the director of the Legend of Ooxmachina, are
Speaker 1: going to be taking the winner under their wing and
Speaker 1: giving them h a tutoring session, and they're going to
Speaker 1: teach you everything you're gonna need to know about being
Speaker 1: a voice over actor. But Sam and Mary they don't
Speaker 1: actually do coaching. Like that's not like they're no thing,
Speaker 1: but like that's insane. That's once in a lifetime, like
Speaker 1: I've not even worked with No, it's gonna be working
Speaker 1: with Sam, which I've gotten. I've actually gotten a chance
Speaker 1: to work with both of them again because because of
Speaker 1: the Legend of Voxmachina Um. Sam also put me on
Speaker 1: DC Superhero Girls and and Future Worm and some other stuff.
Speaker 1: Sam is verifiably like he can also I mean, you
Speaker 1: know if he likes your voice, well, I mean yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean this is this is again. So man, there's
Speaker 1: such a funny joke that my mother used to always
Speaker 1: say to me as a kid when I was growing
Speaker 1: up auditioning for everything. I would walk out and I
Speaker 1: would say I didn't get it, and I'd hang my
Speaker 1: head low and I take the bus back to Connecticut
Speaker 1: and my mom would would always say to me, Hey,
Speaker 1: you never know if they're going to remember you for
Speaker 1: something in the future, and that's such it's so true
Speaker 1: in our industry. Well not to mention, I think that
Speaker 1: someone's going to remember somebody that wanted the contest, and like,
Speaker 1: is this unique? I mean, this is a very cool
Speaker 1: backstory for like like a hero origin story that we're like, right,
Speaker 1: talk about a great origin story. It's you know you
Speaker 1: you then get into a booth with Sam with Mary
Speaker 1: um so it's yeah, you get one coaching session with
Speaker 1: with Sam and Mary. It's going to be phenomenal. We
Speaker 1: have um not been able to talk about that aspect
Speaker 1: of the show yet, the critical role aspect of the show.
Speaker 1: I don't know about you. I've been I've been ecstatic.
Speaker 1: I've been better. Do you feel better talking about it
Speaker 1: now that it's out the secrets? I do? I do?
Speaker 1: I think they should instantly, Christie, turn into an episode
Speaker 1: of Vulnerable where I just tell you how happy I
Speaker 1: am and excited and relieved I am should be talking
Speaker 1: about finally doing the contest, and you know, glad for you.
Speaker 1: I'm getting vulnerable, Christie. You have trauma from holding this
Speaker 1: inside of yourself, I do I have it from No,
Speaker 1: it's not have to walk back what your mom said
Speaker 1: when you were a kid not getting those auditions. Then
Speaker 1: we got out from my head was going instantly going
Speaker 1: back to U two. We're going to go right from
Speaker 1: an episode of A Vulnerable to an episode of pod
Speaker 1: Meats World. We're gonna be looking at looking at season three. No,
Speaker 1: very different tones. Yeah, all of our of our people
Speaker 1: want to shout out to all the folks that were
Speaker 1: tagging us on socials as um, you know, being one
Speaker 1: of their top listen to podcasts. There was this thing,
Speaker 1: um you know on Instagram where people were showcasing from
Speaker 1: Spotify Wrapped, which is like what they do every year,
Speaker 1: like towards the and it's like, these were my top
Speaker 1: five top ten podcasts and I hear voices, Vulnerable, um,
Speaker 1: pod Meats World. They were all groups together. So we
Speaker 1: have a really great fan base. That's awesome. No, I'm
Speaker 1: really excited to meet you guys. As I know Will
Speaker 1: is to he we both love our fans and we
Speaker 1: love you. Yeah, it's huge. You know, you just made
Speaker 1: me think of one of my favorite quotes of all
Speaker 1: time that I live by fortune favors the bold, so
Speaker 1: you know, make sure that you are once again. So
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say it, I'm gonna keep saying it. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna keep saying it, but we're gonna run through it
Speaker 1: one more time, very very quickly. You're going to be
Speaker 1: sending a two minute up to two minutes. It doesn't
Speaker 1: have to be two minutes. You don't have to fill it,
Speaker 1: but don't go over two minutes. P g rated in
Speaker 1: the US residents over eighteen eighteen over. You're gonna be
Speaker 1: sending your entries to I Hear Voices at I heart
Speaker 1: radio dot com. The contest is going to be open
Speaker 1: from January nine to February nine. The whole reason we
Speaker 1: started this podcast was because every time we were at
Speaker 1: a comic con, there's at least ten to twenty people
Speaker 1: that are like, how do I get into the business.
Speaker 1: I love I'm so passionate about it. So we we
Speaker 1: see you, we know you're out there. This is your moment,
Speaker 1: this is this is it for all of our loyal
Speaker 1: listeners out there, and we know there are a lot
Speaker 1: of you, and we've been so so thankful for all
Speaker 1: the listeners we have, and hopefully you're all going to
Speaker 1: enter the contest. But I'm guessing you also know somebody
Speaker 1: a friend, a coworker, somebody in your family, your funny uncle,
Speaker 1: you're funny aunt, somebody who does voices who hasn't heard
Speaker 1: about this contest, and we are are dragooning you into
Speaker 1: going and saying to them enter this context. Dragooning. What
Speaker 1: is that word dragooning? So, uh, dragooning was It's a
Speaker 1: It's an old military term of like enlisting you. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we're we're we're enlisting you, dragooning you to thank you
Speaker 1: uh to I yeah to to go and spread the word,
Speaker 1: you know, get oh. I know this is gonna sound crazy,
Speaker 1: but the person that that's the bank teller at my
Speaker 1: bank every time I'm there, always says goodbye in a
Speaker 1: Mickey Mouse voice. Man, you never know on TikTok there's
Speaker 1: tons of voice actors on TikTok tons. There's a lot
Speaker 1: of talented people. And if you know people that you love,
Speaker 1: even if they're social media folks, they may not know
Speaker 1: about this contest. We want you to tag them and
Speaker 1: let them know, Hey, I heard about that. I hear voices. Um,
Speaker 1: you know contest. Please go and submit yourself because I
Speaker 1: think you'd be great. So yeah, absolutely, you know, yeah,
Speaker 1: we are going to find We're going to blank at
Speaker 1: this country and we are going to find the next
Speaker 1: I mean I always go back to like Kelly Clarkson
Speaker 1: was was a waitress, um, you know in Texas. I
Speaker 1: think where it's just you know. She then all you
Speaker 1: need some people, they just need their break, and that
Speaker 1: is what we were trying to give you. Christy has
Speaker 1: not wanted me to say this at all, but this
Speaker 1: could be your big break. She has been fighting me like,
Speaker 1: don't say it will don't that's it. That's what I said,
Speaker 1: don't say that. That is a total lie. By the way,
Speaker 1: like why aren't we calling it a big break? It's
Speaker 1: a big break? And I was like, I don't want
Speaker 1: to hopes up. But she's right, Chris. Once again, Christie
Speaker 1: has proven herself a hundred percent right and it can
Speaker 1: be your big break. So, um, this is huge. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's it, right, Like that's all it is that we've
Speaker 1: talked about passionately for quite a long time. And also
Speaker 1: just one more shout out, um, because this is really important,
Speaker 1: the legend of Ox not just because I'm on it,
Speaker 1: but mostly because I'm on it, Um the Legend of
Speaker 1: Ox Making. This Season two will premiere January weekly on
Speaker 1: Prime Video in more than two hundred and forty countries
Speaker 1: and territories worldwide. Again, if you have not seen the show,
Speaker 1: it is phenomenally well written, acted directed. The first season
Speaker 1: is a hundred percent fresh certified on Rotten Tomatoes. I'm
Speaker 1: sure the second season will be as well. It's actually
Speaker 1: gonna go up to a hundred five percent because again,
Speaker 1: I'm on. You're gonna do that, right because you're on.
Speaker 1: But can you give me some spoilers? Like do you die?
Speaker 1: I'm telling you nothing. You're gonna have to watch me
Speaker 1: after you die. Okay, I'm not. I'm not going to
Speaker 1: tell you anything. It's going to be awesome. But yeah,
Speaker 1: so check out season two. Uh jan Prime Video. How
Speaker 1: that's that's terrible? Terrible. We are so excited though, so yes,
Speaker 1: that's why we didn't have a guest on this week
Speaker 1: because we are just so excited to do this. Um
Speaker 1: and that's it. That's what we're gonna leave you with.
Speaker 1: I hear voices at I heart radio dot com. This
Speaker 1: is your big break, yes and not only that. Again,
Speaker 1: we want you to go and blanket around your teacher,
Speaker 1: your the janitor, the local bank. Tell whoever you go,
Speaker 1: you know what, that person is actually really funny and
Speaker 1: does some funny voices. Let them know about this contest,
Speaker 1: because this is the one maybe you could get a
Speaker 1: split on the thousand. You know what I told you
Speaker 1: about that contest. Yes, this is going to be great
Speaker 1: and a ton of fun. And again this is this
Speaker 1: is not lip service. We are not doing this as
Speaker 1: some kind of oh you know, this is a gimmick.
Speaker 1: We are looking for a colleague. We are trying to
Speaker 1: find another big voice over actor. Uh, we're you know.
Speaker 1: I'm telling you this is your big break. And it's
Speaker 1: what you say every time we close one of our episodes, right, yeah,
Speaker 1: it is, And I think it's the perfect way to
Speaker 1: close that. So again. January nine, February nine, I Hear
Speaker 1: Voices at our Heart Radio dot com. I want you
Speaker 1: all to enter and don't forget if you think you
Speaker 1: have what it takes to be one of us, and
Speaker 1: put your voices where your mouth is. Thanks everybody. I
Speaker 1: Hear Voices as hosted by Wilfrid l and Christy Carlson
Speaker 1: Romano Executive produced by will Fredell, Brendan Rooney, Amy Sugarman
Speaker 1: and Vicky Ernst Chang. Our executive in charge of production
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